Bill lets people own, access, and delete their data.
H.R. 8652 — YODA · Filed by Michael Cloud (R-TX) · Introduced May 4, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill gives people the right to control their data. Firms cannot force people to give up data to use their sites. People can see their data and ask firms to delete it within 90 days. Firms must get written permission before collecting phone numbers or email. Firms must let people turn off tracking. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general can punish firms that break these rules. People can sue big firms for $100 to $750 for each break.
Who it affects
People who use websites and apps gain power to control their data. Big firms must follow new rules about how they collect and keep data. Small firms with less than $50 million in revenue face only government enforcement.
One thing to notice
The bill requires firms to delete browsing history and face scans within 60 days. This may force firms to change how they store data and raise costs. The bill does not say what happens to data firms collected before the law starts.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- May 4, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 4, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $540,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 139 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Michael Cloud, who sponsored the bill, received $219,270 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies — $540,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- face scans — Information about a person's face used to identify them.
- tracking — When a firm watches what a person does online.
- Federal Trade Commission — A federal agency that stops unfair and false business practices.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (13,581 characters) on Sep 26, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 15,316 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-27.
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